Music Trade Review
Issue: 1897 Vol. 24 N. 1 - Page 8
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
and the soft, sensuous south winds woo the
roses and the lilies.
In our retrospective, there are deserts
strewn with the wreckage of business con-
cerns, while over even the remotest hori-
zon hang heavy sulphurous looking clouds
LYMAN
which dart occasional lurid flashes. Thank
Editor and Proprietor.,
heaven, the view is retrospective—not
prospective.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
Let us turn to the brighter page.
3 East 14th St., New York
1897 is a rollicking youngster hardly but
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, {3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
of swaddling clothes, and it bids fair to
ADVERTISEMENTS, | 2 .oo per inch, single column, per
give a good account of itself in commerce,
Insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special dis-
count is allowed.
industry and art before old Father Time
REMITTANCES, fa other than currency form, should
tM made payable to Edward Lyman BilL
swings his scythe and sweeps it off the
Entered at tkt New York Post Office as Second- Class Mmttmr. stage to make room for the next year.
From all reports at hand, we feel justified
NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1897.
in predicting that 1897 will, in a business
sense, be the bridge to better times. While
TELEPHONE NUMBER 1745. - EIGHTEENTH STREET.
it will not be in the slightest degree what
may be termed in the vernacular a boom
"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
year, yet it will show material advances
over the year so recently laid to rest.
When one states we will have good
times—the good old days will be here right
now depend upon it—that individual is
either talking because he loves to hear
the sound of his own voice, or he is in total
ignorance of the conditions which form the
basis of our prosperity. No one who hag
given even a superficial glance at the
natural laws underlying the basis of our
national wealth can make such an irrational
statement.
In all ages nations have had to solve cer-
tain complex issues. From the earliest days'
of which we have recorded history down to
the present, the human race has had serious
problems, some easily solved, others fraught
with much trouble, but through all ages
THE PUBLICATION DAY OF THE REVIEW the process of evolution has gone steadily
IS CHANGED THIS WEEK FROM SATURDAY on, and we have advanced towards a higher
TO THURSDAY, OWING TO THE FACT OF civilization. This higher civilization has
THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY INTERVENING. brought in its train a keener state of suffer-
ALL NEWS RECEIVED AFTER WEDNES- ing, as it has generated a people of greater
DAY NOON WILL APPEAR IN NEXT WEEK'S nervous sensibilities. Whether we are
PAPER.
happier in these end of the nineteenth cen-
tury days than were our remote ancestors
who had less raiment and did not sell pianos
SEEN THROUGH "REVIEW" EYES.
HE curtain is rung down, 1896 has on five dollar monthly installments, we are
passed into history, and, as Lincoln not at this moment prepared to express
once remarked, history is mighty hard ourselves. However, we live in what may
reading for some, we may say, without be properly termed the industrial age, and
fear of contradiction, that 1896 furnishes by the almost phenomenal advance made
some plain cold, cheerless history for in our productive powers, we have brought
many. Take it all through, and carefully about new conditions which require the full
analyze the results of each month, and it exercise of deliberative and judicial minds
to successfully solve—minds in which the
does not make a pleasant retrospective.
The view is hardly such as is obtained predominating element should be patriot-
by a traveler who has laboriously climbed ism rather than partisanship.
T
a hill and can look back over peaceful
fields, a smiling sunlit landscape, while the
air is redolent with the perfume of violets,
brought into prominence by an invisible
power, men will stand at the helm of the ship
of state, so that we may be delivered from
the political hell broth into which we have
been plunged for the past three } 7 ears.
There are no reasons, save political, why
we should not be delivered from the bane
of partizan politics. Selfish, bigoted men
in Washington have cast their baneful
shadow upon the industries of this country
and they have succeeded in prostrating
them.
Let us hope that the new year ushers in-
to our national affairs more patriotism and
more true Americanism. We are sadly in
need of both.
The business man must have his innings
occasionally or he'll get disgusted and call
the game off.
The business outlook for the music trade,
while not of the deepest roseate hue, has
many points which are reassuring.
The driftwood of years in the ware-
rooms has been cleared up and gotten rid
of and the stock carried at the stores
throughout the country is indeed much de-
pleted.
When sales are made the void created by
removals must at once be filled.
That condition of affairs means a steadier
state of trade, with much less of the spurty
element injected than heretofore. It is
true, holiday trade was disappointing, but
that is easily explained.
Pianos are not in vogue just now as holi-
day gifts, and the people who buy pianos
are just as liable to purchase them in Janu-
ary as in December.
Better times, surely—and we are willing
to go on record as stating that the output
for pianos for the present year will exceed
that of 1896 by a cool twenty thousand.
This statement is made upon a table as ac-
curate as the detached condition of the
trade will permit of making.
But a twenty thousand increase hardly
warrants one going into ecstacies.
Our advice is just inject a moderate
amount of conservatism into all business
dealings and do not let the return to better
times be marked by the old hurrah method
of doing things.
It is far better to make less goods and
get the pay for them than to scatter through
a widely separated territory wares on all
sorts of elusive as well as delusive terms.
Better have the instruments than not to
have the pay for them.
This week business concerns are scan-
ning the balance sheets for the old year.
It seems that events are always guided to For the few the occupation will be a pleas-
an ultimate issue for the nation's good by a urable one.
Master's hand, so we must now believe that,
For the many—well, as DeWolf Hopper
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
and the soft, sensuous south winds woo the
roses and the lilies.
In our retrospective, there are deserts
strewn with the wreckage of business con-
cerns, while over even the remotest hori-
zon hang heavy sulphurous looking clouds
LYMAN
which dart occasional lurid flashes. Thank
Editor and Proprietor.,
heaven, the view is retrospective—not
prospective.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
Let us turn to the brighter page.
3 East 14th St., New York
1897 is a rollicking youngster hardly but
SUBSCRIPTION (including postage) United States and
Canada, {3.00 per year; Foreign Countries, $4.00.
of swaddling clothes, and it bids fair to
ADVERTISEMENTS, | 2 .oo per inch, single column, per
give a good account of itself in commerce,
Insertion. On quarterly or yearly contracts a special dis-
count is allowed.
industry and art before old Father Time
REMITTANCES, fa other than currency form, should
tM made payable to Edward Lyman BilL
swings his scythe and sweeps it off the
Entered at tkt New York Post Office as Second- Class Mmttmr. stage to make room for the next year.
From all reports at hand, we feel justified
NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1897.
in predicting that 1897 will, in a business
sense, be the bridge to better times. While
TELEPHONE NUMBER 1745. - EIGHTEENTH STREET.
it will not be in the slightest degree what
may be termed in the vernacular a boom
"THE BUSINESS MAN'S PAPER."
year, yet it will show material advances
over the year so recently laid to rest.
When one states we will have good
times—the good old days will be here right
now depend upon it—that individual is
either talking because he loves to hear
the sound of his own voice, or he is in total
ignorance of the conditions which form the
basis of our prosperity. No one who hag
given even a superficial glance at the
natural laws underlying the basis of our
national wealth can make such an irrational
statement.
In all ages nations have had to solve cer-
tain complex issues. From the earliest days'
of which we have recorded history down to
the present, the human race has had serious
problems, some easily solved, others fraught
with much trouble, but through all ages
THE PUBLICATION DAY OF THE REVIEW the process of evolution has gone steadily
IS CHANGED THIS WEEK FROM SATURDAY on, and we have advanced towards a higher
TO THURSDAY, OWING TO THE FACT OF civilization. This higher civilization has
THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY INTERVENING. brought in its train a keener state of suffer-
ALL NEWS RECEIVED AFTER WEDNES- ing, as it has generated a people of greater
DAY NOON WILL APPEAR IN NEXT WEEK'S nervous sensibilities. Whether we are
PAPER.
happier in these end of the nineteenth cen-
tury days than were our remote ancestors
who had less raiment and did not sell pianos
SEEN THROUGH "REVIEW" EYES.
HE curtain is rung down, 1896 has on five dollar monthly installments, we are
passed into history, and, as Lincoln not at this moment prepared to express
once remarked, history is mighty hard ourselves. However, we live in what may
reading for some, we may say, without be properly termed the industrial age, and
fear of contradiction, that 1896 furnishes by the almost phenomenal advance made
some plain cold, cheerless history for in our productive powers, we have brought
many. Take it all through, and carefully about new conditions which require the full
analyze the results of each month, and it exercise of deliberative and judicial minds
to successfully solve—minds in which the
does not make a pleasant retrospective.
The view is hardly such as is obtained predominating element should be patriot-
by a traveler who has laboriously climbed ism rather than partisanship.
T
a hill and can look back over peaceful
fields, a smiling sunlit landscape, while the
air is redolent with the perfume of violets,
brought into prominence by an invisible
power, men will stand at the helm of the ship
of state, so that we may be delivered from
the political hell broth into which we have
been plunged for the past three } 7 ears.
There are no reasons, save political, why
we should not be delivered from the bane
of partizan politics. Selfish, bigoted men
in Washington have cast their baneful
shadow upon the industries of this country
and they have succeeded in prostrating
them.
Let us hope that the new year ushers in-
to our national affairs more patriotism and
more true Americanism. We are sadly in
need of both.
The business man must have his innings
occasionally or he'll get disgusted and call
the game off.
The business outlook for the music trade,
while not of the deepest roseate hue, has
many points which are reassuring.
The driftwood of years in the ware-
rooms has been cleared up and gotten rid
of and the stock carried at the stores
throughout the country is indeed much de-
pleted.
When sales are made the void created by
removals must at once be filled.
That condition of affairs means a steadier
state of trade, with much less of the spurty
element injected than heretofore. It is
true, holiday trade was disappointing, but
that is easily explained.
Pianos are not in vogue just now as holi-
day gifts, and the people who buy pianos
are just as liable to purchase them in Janu-
ary as in December.
Better times, surely—and we are willing
to go on record as stating that the output
for pianos for the present year will exceed
that of 1896 by a cool twenty thousand.
This statement is made upon a table as ac-
curate as the detached condition of the
trade will permit of making.
But a twenty thousand increase hardly
warrants one going into ecstacies.
Our advice is just inject a moderate
amount of conservatism into all business
dealings and do not let the return to better
times be marked by the old hurrah method
of doing things.
It is far better to make less goods and
get the pay for them than to scatter through
a widely separated territory wares on all
sorts of elusive as well as delusive terms.
Better have the instruments than not to
have the pay for them.
This week business concerns are scan-
ning the balance sheets for the old year.
It seems that events are always guided to For the few the occupation will be a pleas-
an ultimate issue for the nation's good by a urable one.
Master's hand, so we must now believe that,
For the many—well, as DeWolf Hopper
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